Interview: Qamar Naseem: The Pakistani Feminist

Interview: Qamar Naseem: The Pakistani Feminist
By Sonya Rehman, The Diplomat, 04 Sep 2014


 
I first heard of the Pakistani women’s rights activist, Qamar Naseem, via BBC’s Outlook program, which interviewed him in July this year. A recipient of the “No Peace Without Justice Human Rights Award” (this year) and part of a human rights (primarily women’s rights) non-profit, Blue Veins, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Naseem spoke with me about working with communities at the grass-roots level, threats faced, and the trouble with human rights activism in Pakistan today.

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